If it happened, it was in the news.
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser – Wednesday 11 August 1875 RAILWAY ACCIDENT. An accident, fortunately attended by no more serious result than the detention of a large number of passengers, has occurred at the Cannon-street station, London. The 10.35 train to Hastings from Charing-cross, it appears, was entering the station, when, from some unexplained cause, […]
Morning Advertiser – Monday 23 March 1868 THE ALLEGED MURDER ON A RAILWAY. The Surrey coroner was on Saturday night occupied for three hours at the “Railway” Tavern, Surbiton, respecting the supposed murder of James Randel, aged twenty years. The case excited great interest, it having been stated that the deceased had been murdered and […]
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 22 June 1879 The Murder at Rotherhithe (From our later editions of last week.) The adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Collins, a telegraph messenger, who was found stabbed about the body under a railway arch at Rotherhithe, and who died in Guy’s Hospital, was resumed on Friday at the latter […]
Norfolk News – Saturday 05 December 1896 BRIGHTON RAILWAY OUTRAGE.ATTACK ON A SUFFOLK WOMAN. At the Sussex Assizes on Monday, before Baron Pollock, Alfred Lock, 18, described as a gardener, of East Grinstead, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Louisa Clarke, a middle-aged woman, with intent to murder her, in a third-class railway carriage on the London, Brighton, […]
Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 The Keymer Railway Accident – The Verdict Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 Yesterday, at the Constitutional Club, Burgess Hill, Mr. H. B. Bignell, Deputy Coroner for East Sussex, resumed the inquiry into the deaths of William Durrant, rear guard of the up Newhaven boat train; Baldini […]
The 1887 Board of Trade report revealed that 919 people were killed and 3,590 injured on UK railways. Of these, 121 deaths and 1,297 injuries involved passengers, with only 25 fatalities caused by train collisions; the rest resulted from other incidents, often due to passenger carelessness. Railway workers and contractors accounted for 422 deaths and […]
Family notices in old newspapers are important because they provide essential details about individuals, relationships, and communities, offering a rich resource for genealogical research and insights into social history. Here is an example: Gloucester Citizen (Thursday 8th December 1927): BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, In Memoriam Notices, Acknowledgements of Sympathy, […]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY. Also on this page: The State of Rail Safety in the UK During the 1850s Importance of Historical News Articles for Historians and Genealogists Free to use British Newspaper Research Service COLLISION OF TRAINS. Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard – Saturday 04 July 1857 A frightful accident occurred a […]
